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I am an English Teacher | Dissident Voice

I am an English Teacher | Dissident Voice | A is for Adjunct | Scoop.it

It’s finally hitting the mainstream – The New Faculty Majority Is – off-the-tenure-track see these (my bibliography on this topic is 40 pages): 

 

“From Graduate School to Welfare”
or “The Closing of American Academia”
or “Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concern”
or “Lazy Faculty?”
or Adjunct Project

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And then here and

“The Abysmal State of Adjunct Pay and Actions to Create Change”

“Caste System in Higher Education”

Report – Who is Professor “Staff”?

 

So, all of this copy....where does it take us?

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Let’s frame some things here first...  Keith Kroll's “The End of the Community College English Professions” (Digital pdf). TETYC, https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8168697/EndofCCEnglishProfession_KeithKroll.pdf 

VanessaVaile's insight:

Read Kroll and then the rest of this 1st of three parts on Dissident Voice, http://dissidentvoice.org/

Paul Haeder's comment, January 4, 3:30 PM
Kroll's look at community colleges, well, a bit droll
VanessaVaile's comment, January 4, 6:22 PM
better droll than troll
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A distributist argument for tenure « Throne and Altar

A distributist argument for tenure « Throne and Altar | A is for Adjunct | Scoop.it
The thing is, tenure is not primarily about academic freedom. Let's try and be scientific and do an experiment with one variable: what's the difference between a tenured professor and an untenured research faculty member?

 

"Academic tenure is a matter of debate again, most recently at First Things. To my mind, these discussions fail to get to the heart of the matter because both sides assume that the purpose of tenure is to protect academic freedom, to promote independent thinking."

 

An interesting, patriarchal (articulating and defending the principles of authoritarian conservatism) discussion of tenure

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The New Faculty Majority: Hands Up for Fair Employment

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FPSE (Federation of Post-Secondary Education) President's Statement for Fair Employment Week #FEW (Canadian version of #CEW2011)

 

This week in post-secondary institutions across Canada faculty and staff are highlighting the problems that non-regular faculty face in their demand for fair employment. It is a struggle that every local in our Federation takes on at the bargaining table and throughout the term of their collective agreements: the struggle to achieve fair and secure employment for every member.

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